Quotes about Sleep
For though I tried to move his arm— unlock his bridegroom clasp—yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly, as though naught but death should part us twain.
— Herman Melville
and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.
— Herman Melville
We sing; they sleep—aye, lie down there, like ground-tier butts. At 'em again! There, take this copper-pump, and hail 'em through it. Tell 'em to avast dreaming of their lasses. Tell 'em it's the resurrection; they must kiss their last, and come to judgment.
— Herman Melville
20, 51; 1 Thess. 4:13—17). Sleep is an excellent analogy.
— Hugh Ross
Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.
— Charles Spurgeon
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
— Emily Bronte
He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.
— GK Chesterton
Insomnia's different," I said. It was hard to explain this to people. "You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That's what it's like in my head. The light stays on.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again.
— Joseph Heller
At day's end I'm ready for sound sleep, For you, GOD, have put my life back together.
— Eugene Peterson
In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.
— Amy Grant